California · Private foundation
The Lemmon Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $97k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 9
- Grants FY2025
- 11
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 27%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $30,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 5 to 15
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 8
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.6M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 27% of the organizations The Lemmon Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 22% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 9 | $97k | 11% |
| FY2024 | 11 | $125k | 27% |
| FY2023 | 15 | $98k | 53% |
| FY2022 | 11 | $48k | 82% |
| FY2021 | 5 | $66k | 40% |
| FY2020 | 9 | $65k | 33% |
| FY2019 | 8 | $75k | 63% |
| FY2018 | 5 | $34k | 40% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wild Earth Allies Inc | $175,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Lady Freethinker | $62,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Wildlife Conservation International | $40,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Center for a Humane Economy Inc | $34,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Sea Turtle Conservancy | $31,500 | 5 | 0% |
| American Bird Conservancy | $30,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Orang Utan Republik Foundation Inc | $30,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Orangutan Foundation International | $24,000 | 4 | 0% |
| World Animal Protection | $22,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Defenders of Wildlife | $20,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 28 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($87k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Lemmon Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: PC Fund for Animals Charitable Tr · Give Lively Foundation Inc · Seb Charitable Fund · Chubb Charitable Foundation · National Fish and Wildlife Foundation · American Express Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · AbbVie Foundation · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust
How this is measured
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About The Lemmon Foundation
- How much does The Lemmon Foundation give?
- The Lemmon Foundation reported 9 grants totaling $96,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 15 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Lemmon Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Animals (62%), Environment (30%), Human Services (2%).
- Who are The Lemmon Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Wild Earth Allies Inc ($175k), Lady Freethinker ($62k), Wildlife Conservation International ($40k).
- Does The Lemmon Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 27% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Lemmon Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Lemmon Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include PC Fund for Animals Charitable Tr, Give Lively Foundation Inc, Seb Charitable Fund.
- Where is The Lemmon Foundation based?
- The Lemmon Foundation is based in CA.
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